Faculty

Philip Sorenson

About

Teaching Philosophy:

As a composition instructor, I believe in several core practices: emphasizing the grammatical expectations of standard written English, introducing highly difficult but rhetorically powerful texts, and presenting a variety of writing genres and purposes. As a teacher of core literature courses, my goals are somewhat different: I attempt to excite student interest, to open students’ sense of what constitutes literature, and to push students into new critical postures. In both cases—composition and core literature—I believe my best practice coalesces around a desire to pass along big ideas and compelling texts.